The Book of Abstracts contains the contributions for presentations during the 1st Plasma for Nanotechnology and Bioapplications Workshop held on 8th – 10th December 2019 in University Centre in Telč. Workshop was attended by the researcher teams from Department of Physical Electronics, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University in Brno (CEPLANT), and Department of Experimental Physics, Faculty o…
Explore a decade of groundbreaking research in "10th Anniversary of Cells—Advances in Plant, Algae, and Fungi Cell Biology." This reprint offers a comprehensive journey into the realms of plant, algae, and fungi cell biology. Delve into the world of genomics, cellular defense mechanisms, mycorrhizal fungi, and the physiology of extremophile algae. A celebration of scientific excellence, this …
The purpose of this SI is to provide an overview of recent advances made in the methods used for tissue imaging and characterization, which benefit from using a large range of optical wavelengths. Guerouah et al. has contributed a profound study of the responses of the adult human brain to breath-holding challenges based on hyperspectral near-infrared spectroscopy (hNIRS). Lange et al. contribu…
Welchen Erklärungswert haben klassische ethnologische Kulturtheorien für die Analyse kultureller Globalisierung? Macht der Begriff »Kultur« in einer entgrenzten und hybridisierten Welt überhaupt noch Sinn? Anhand der breit rezipierten Ansätze von Clifford Geertz und Pierre Bourdieu überprüft der Autor die postmoderne These, Globalisierung erfordere eine fundamentale Umstellung der kultu…
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This descriptive and comprehensive study on the discursive struggle over interpersonal relations in online message boards is located at the fascinating interface of pragmatics and computer-mediated discourse – a research area which has so far not attracted much scientific interest. It sets out to shed light on the question how interpersonal relations are established, managed and negotiated in…
The hearing of a case in a court room by a tribunal, today classified as the trial phase, has long stood inherently in the nature of the judicial competence of a State. By contrast, the pretrial phase and the introduction of the public prosecutor into the criminal procedural system as a subject of the judicial process has a much shorter history than the trial. However, in recent times, the pre-…
When Canada created a Dominion Parks Branch in 1911, it became the first country in the world to establish an agency devoted to managing its national parks. Over the past century this agency, now Parks Canada, has been at the centre of important debates about the place of nature in Canadian nationhood and relationships between Canada’s diverse ecosystems and its communities. Today, Parks Cana…
This book explores socio-cultural meanings of ‘self’ in the Chinese language through analysing a range of conversations among Chinese immigrants to Australia qualitatively on the topics of individuality, social relationships and collective identity. If language, culture and cognition are major roads, this book is the junction that unites them by arguing that selfhood occurs at their interfa…
This chapter traces the development of Augustine’s discourse on peace in light of anti-Donatist polemics found in both his earlier letters and formal treatises. First, it presents evidence of Augustine’s effort to secure peace in North Africa from his letters; and second, the author focuses on Augustine’s appeal to the Latin text of John 14:27a in light of contemporary social and ecclesia…